Spratt
Spratt was an associate of the Freelance Peacekeeping Agent Death's Head in the year 8162. (COMIC: Death's Head Revisited [+]Loading...["Death's Head Revisited (comic story)"], etc.)
Biography
Spratt was a member of the Chain Gang in Greater Britain, and spent years scavenging for resources for the group. (COMIC: Contractual Obligations [+]Loading...["Contractual Obligations (comic story)"]) He first met Death's Head when he repaired him after the freelance peacekeeping agent was damaged in an encounter with Dragon's Claws. (COMIC: Death's Head Revisited [+]Loading...["Death's Head Revisited (comic story)"]) The Chain Gang was disbanded after another encounter with Dragon's Claws, leaving Spratt without any ties to the area. When Death's Head left, Spratt snuck up on him, something no one else had ever done, and volunteered his services as a partner, arguing that he could help Death's Head with the business side of freelance peacekeeping. Death's Head declined, which Spratt ignored. (COMIC: Contractual Obligations [+]Loading...["Contractual Obligations (comic story)"])
Spratt continued to stick with Death's Head on a flight to Los Angeles. When animal rights activists attempted to hijack the plane, Spratt dramatically took them down singlehandedly, leading Death's Head to reluctantly give him a chance. (COMIC: High Stakes [+]Loading...["High Stakes (comic story)"])
In Los Angeles, Death's Head took on a contract to take out a corrupt businessman named Ogrus; Spratt committed the prospective reward money as down payment on an office. Spratt got underfoot when Death's Head tried to get information from a target about Ogrus's location. When the unwilling informant threatened to kill Spratt if Death's Head didn't back off, the peacekeeping agent told the man he'd be doing him a favour and stood there until the informant gave in. A furious Spratt attempted to attack the informant but was thrown aside by Death's Head. This chain of events led Spratt to realise that Death's Head didn't particularly respect him, and when Death's Head's attempt to take down Ogrus seemed to be going south he attempted to intervene. Ultimately he succeeded and helped knock out Ogrus. (COMIC: High Stakes [+]Loading...["High Stakes (comic story)"])
While Death's Head worked to draw out a target known as the PlagueDog, Spratt went to look over their new office. Unbeknownst to him, the office space was the home base of the PlagueDog, which attacked him. After a desperate fight Spratt killed it, and tiredly greeted Death's Head when he arrived. (COMIC: PlagueDog! [+]Loading...["PlagueDog! (comic story)"])
Spratt soon had to share the office space with the vulture, who would peck at him whenever he tried to answer the phone. On one such occasion the vulture answered a call from Pyra. (COMIC: Sudden Impact! [+]Loading...["Sudden Impact! (comic story)"])
Spratt tagged along on the pursuit of a shapeshifter named Photofit, volunteering to look around his last known location at a TV studio while Death's Head went to get a device that could identify him. Spratt found a body stuffed into a storage closet, and assuming that Photofit had taken on the dead man's appearance set off to find him... only to run onto the set of a live game show. The show host enlisted him as a competitor, and Spratt almost won until Photofit, who wanted the winning prize of a trip to Rio, threatened to shoot him. Fortunately for Spratt Death's Head crashed through the wall at this point. Photofit attempted to escape but was taken out by an explosion, and Death's Head and Spratt looked to see if they could find enough of him to claim the bounty. (COMIC: Shot By Both Sides [+]Loading...["Shot By Both Sides (comic story)"])
Spratt finally managed to answer the phone by punching the vulture out of the air, to another call from Pyra. Seeking to ascertain just what her relationship to Death's Head was, he lied that Death's Head would meet her that night. (COMIC: Clobberin' Time! [+]Loading...["Clobberin' Time! (comic story)"])
When Death's Head was stranded in the year 2020, he considered one of the upsides to be that Spratt wasn't there. This didn't last, as Spratt, the vulture, and Big Shot arrived in Death's Head's ship via a dimensional portal. (COMIC: The Cast Iron Contract [+]Loading...["The Cast Iron Contract (comic story)"])
At some point, Spratt died. When Death's Head II was trapped in cyberspace, Death's Head reflected that he would have saved him if he could have. (COMIC: The Incomplete Death's Head [+]Loading...["The Incomplete Death's Head (comic story)"])
Behind the scenes
The individual who repairs Death's Head in "Death's Head Revisited" is only identified as Spratt in the Incomplete Death's Head reprint of the story, and does not match later appearances of Spratt in either appearance or personality.
